Speaking over the weekend on last week’s attack against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said that they are preparing to make “condolence payments” to the families of the 22 people slain in the US attack.

Officially, the Pentagon says they are withholding the details pending their own internal investigation into the attack, which those familiar with the situation say will center on whether the crew of the US warplane knew they were attacking a hospital at the time.

This is itself something of an admission, as the Pentagon had previously expressed confidence the whole thing was a “mistake.” US rules of engagement in Afghanistan would not have permitted a strike against a protected civilian facility like the hospital.

Everybody got this whole incident wrong. The only reason it happened was because of the laziness of the foreign doctors. Apparently they heard that the Americans have such a sophisticated weapons that they can use them with surgical precision. So what the doctors did was they gave the exact coordinates of each patient laying in their bed awaiting amputations of various limbs, and the planes were supposed to hit each patient in the limb that needed amputation and thus save valuable time and effort for the doctors. The only thing that prevented this great idea from turning into raging success, was the shoddy construction of the hospital. The ammunition was supposed to go through the walls and again – with surgical precision – hit only the ailing limbs. Instead, the whole building just collapsed. It seems that you can't use smart weapons against stupidly build objects. So stop blaming the Americans, they were just trying to help. If anything, it's the lazy doctors fault, who ordered the strikes and then immediately left without waiting to see the results of the operation that they themselves designed. You're all just jealous, because America has superior technology albeit with some soon to be worked out glitches. Next project – a scanner which tells the difference between a moderate and a hard line terrorists.

The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat, or incapable of fighting. The first Convention was initiated by the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (which became the International Committee for the Red Cross and Red Crescent). This convention produced a treaty designed to protect wounded and sick soldiers during wartime. The Swiss Government agreed to hold the Conventions in Geneva, and a few years later, a similar agreement to protect shipwrecked soldiers was produced. In 1949, after World War II, two new Conventions were added to the original two, and all four were ratified by a number of countries. The 1949 versions of the Conventions, along with two additional Protocols, are in force today. <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/geneva_conventions” target=”_blank”>www.law.cornell.edu/wex/geneva_conventions